What about «the supreme
principle of ethics»?
It is assumed that every one can know that, and therefore Jesus» demand for love is no revelation of a new
principle of ethics nor of a new conception of the dignity of man.
To establish this wonder would be metaphysics itself and would at the same time give
us the principle of an ethics.
No, i just think there would be
no principle of ethics or treating people with dignity if not for religion.
Quick meets a young man who attributes his recovery from an opioid addiction in part to Buffett's
principles of ethics and integrity, and profiles NFL superstar Ndamukong Suh, who has been mentored by Buffett as he pursues business interests he hopes will carry him beyond his pro football career.
Courageous people are governed by
principles of ethics and a moral framework.
Is it not the case that nations are in their very nature fated to throw themselves at one another in a grim game of power to which
the principles of ethics are no more relevant than to the death battle of prehistoric mastodons?
POTTERAnd so the general
principles of ethics and beneficence that are really at the heart of all maternity care professionals really are at work for certified professional midwives as well.
An international mechanism under the UNFCCC is urgently needed that helps other nations and civil society to understand the lack of conformity of national ghg emissions targets with
principles of ethics and justice.
Ensured compliance to hospital policies and procedures, standards of nursing practice and
principles of ethics and confidentiality.
Not exact matches
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principles to evaluate a company's values How to Write a Code
of Ethics for Business: Putting Someone in Charge Even if senior management and employees embrace a code
of ethics, someone needs to be put in charge
of applying and updating it.
A code
of ethics is a collection
of principles and practices that a business believes in and aims to live by.
He won an Apex Award for a book he wrote several years ago called
Principled Profit, which was one
of the first to challenge the conventional wisdom about the place
of ethics and the environment in business successand that self - published book was republished by mainstream publishers in both India and Mexico.
We take Corporate Governance seriously and are dedicated to operating the company according to the highest
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Your
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The
principles of human rights and non-discrimination are based on a Christian
ethic, and should be something we are actively supporting as Christians in the workplace.
He «was one
of the first great teachers to proclaim the basic
principle of individualism» the inviolate sanctity
of man's soul, and the salvation
of one's soul as one's first concern and highest goal,» but «when it came to the next question, a code
of ethics to observe for the salvation
of one's soul... Jesus (or perhaps His interpreters) gave men a code
of altruism, that is, a code which told them that in order to save one's soul, one must love or help or live for others.
As long as you stick with the Bible as the final word on
ethics, or
of knowing God's
principles (as the Pope and Gary do), then we are going to have folks who feel they are above dialogue — because why is dialogue needed if you know God's
principle or his Word?
«As long as you stick with the Bible as the final word on
ethics, or
of knowing God's
principles (as the Pope and Gary do)»
Evangelicals have regularly approved and applied this
principle of conditional obedience in the case
of preaching and personal
ethics.
Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in
principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life
of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues
of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.
I was particularly dissatisfied by her argument that the «sheer impracticality»
of Jesus»
ethic is a product
of his apocalyptic convictions, since «no normal society could long run on the
principles of the Sermon on the Mount.»
Given that his
ethic was not an «
ethic of principles,» it is difficult to conceive
of him as a «
principled pacifist» in Yoder's sense.
«The
ethics of it,» he said, «run counter to the highest Christian
principles of fairness and nondiscrimination in the market place.
The second
principle for a sexual
ethic is that we have to speak
of sex, as
of every aspect
of human life, in a double way, from the standpoint
of essential created goodness, and the distortion produced by sin.
It is not that the general
principles are no longer valid, unimportant or should be replaced by a situation
ethics because they are
of no consequence.
Such specific regulative
principles, which
of themselves exclude any formalist situation
ethics, even
of a Christian type, have also great practical importance.
For instance, when Fowler and Westerhoff think about theological
ethics, they tend to think in terms
of an
ethics of virtue or disposition, in contrast to a theological
ethics emphasizing
principle and procedure.
Berry's ideas for a more functional economy are strongly influenced by those
of naturalist Aldo Leopold, who outlined in his essay «A Land
Ethic»
principles that should guide human - earth relationships.
Indeed, I have that fear about much
of my work, as some seem to think that «an
ethics of character» may be a new alternative to an
ethics of principle or a situation
ethics.
It may be worth emphasizing that the substantive
principle of justice in a teleological
ethic (or, for that matter, any
ethic at all) is invalid unless it consistently implies the formative human rights
of communicative respect.
In his essay «The Golden Rule in the Light
of New Insight,» Harvard psychoanalyst Erik Erikson comments: «systematic students
of ethics often indicate a certain disdain for this all - too - primitive ancestor
of more logical
principles; and Bernard Shaw found the rule an easy target: don't do to another what you would like to be done by, he warned, because his tastes may differ from yours» (Insight and Responsibility [Norton, 1964], p. 226).
This basic
principle implies that common sense and science must supply all the essential factual knowledge, and that standards
of ethics and justice must come from secular philosophies that rest upon uncontroversial assumptions.
This work is necessary to provide for practical theology a method and procedure (built at least in part on an
ethic of principles) and help it to avoid the danger
of associating the ethical core
of practical theology with an
ethic of virtue and character.
Finally, at the very heart
of biblical
ethics lie the fundamental values that infuse moral conduct and
principles.
It is not possible to play the schooling game we all know so well, dealing with abstract
principles of pastoral care or professional
ethics, Jesus» parables, innovative worship, or a Sunday youth fellowship.
The core
of the
ethic — «a minimal consensus, not a minimal standard» — is the
principle that «every human being must be treated humanely.»
In the last analysis, there is no such thing as a disembodied reason; no
principles of order — in logic, science, epistemology, even in
ethics or aesthetics — have any reality except what they derive from one or more actualities whose active characters they express.
I understand the new work on ecclesiology and
ethics which the World Council
of Churches has launched to be a way to find new ethical
principles to interpret the very nature and being
of the Church.
«We are all,» he writes, «at least in
principle, compromised Greek citizens carrying the burden
of compromised Protestant
ethics.
As I continue to seek to understand the violent portrayals
of God in the Old Testament, my approach has been to see Jesus Christ as the interpretive
principle, the guiding
ethic, the hermeneutical trump card
of all
of the Word
of God.
'' [T] he poverty
of postmodern ethical relativism should be evident - a missing ethical subject and hence no possibility
of genuine moral responsibility or accountability, desire as the basis for
ethics,
ethics as pure self - creation with the vaguest
of boundaries,
ethics without
principle, or ethical conduct measured by how well one «copes with the flux»
of the postmodern world.»
This
principle has been applied in Jewish
ethics to the unnecessary destruction
of anything living or otherwise
of value.
We argue that Nietzsche is embracing an ancient rather than a modern view
of ethics, what has been called an «
ethics of virtue» rather than an
ethics of rules and
principles, rather than an
ethic that looks mainly to the spread
of well - being and happiness («utilitarianism»).
This morality tale — versions
of which float around church groups everywhere — ostensibly enforces the weight
of principled living, warns against the incoherence
of situational
ethics and highlights the importance
of integrity.
Thus the «formal
principle» that dominates the Mahayana
ethic is the idea
of imitation.
The corner stone
of ALL religions is also the ONLY religious principle that I was taught in the «business ethics» class I took in college... Put simply, if everyone did their very best to follow the «the golden rule» (i.e. due unto others as you would have them do unto you) in everything they do, WE WOULD HAVE A BETTER SOCIETY TODAY EVEN WITHOUT ORGANIZED RELIGION OF ANY KIN
of ALL religions is also the ONLY religious
principle that I was taught in the «business
ethics» class I took in college... Put simply, if everyone did their very best to follow the «the golden rule» (i.e. due unto others as you would have them do unto you) in everything they do, WE WOULD HAVE A BETTER SOCIETY TODAY EVEN WITHOUT ORGANIZED RELIGION
OF ANY KIN
OF ANY KIND.
But this criticism does not really apply to Hartshorne in that in his virtue
ethics he is not so much concerned with agents as with the
principles that (albeit at a high level
of abstraction) guide one in determining which actions are logically possible and which, when chosen by some agent or other, are consistent with what must be the case in metaphysics.
Reinhold Niebuhr is less dualistic in that he stresses the relevance
of love as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution
of love for the requirements
of justice that the major impact
of his thought is a dichotomy in which again justice, and not love, is the determining
principle of social
ethics.
Even worse, we are seeing the creation
of a hardwired
ethic of supply - side immorality to which the
principle of consent will not be able to set meaningful boundaries.